Rdio's always forced you to bare your listening habits for the world to see, a fact that some users haven't appreciated. Now the the company's changing its tune and introducing Protected Accounts, which let you pick and choose who can see your data. Protected Accounts work like restricted...
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With the US Democratic National Convention underway, the party has released its 2012 platform, including positions on "internet freedom" — a term that's been used to mean anything from free online speech to anti-net neutrality provisions....
Since its incarnation, Flixster has aimed to be a social hub for movie fanatics. The jack-of-all-trades site combines trailers, user ratings, Rotten Tomatoes reviews, and a massive movie database into web, mobile, and set-top box applications that have enjoyed exponential growth in recent years. Flixster's iOS offering, for instance, is a handy reference for movie previews, nearby theaters, and...
The technology and financial industries were foaming at the mouth when Facebook was preparing to announce that it was going public earlier this year, an event that would represent the largest IPO ever for a web company. But even with Mark Zuckerberg at the helm, the company's performance in the stock market revealed a flurry of miscalculations and an overabundance of hype, ultimately leading to an all-time low value of $18.06 per share last Friday.
So should the company's chief executive take the blame for losing $50 billion in market value in just three months since the IPO? Or maybe it's the fault of the Wall Street banks? According to DealBook, fingers should be pointed at one particular individual whose name rarely surfaced throughout the course of the catastrophe: Facebook's chief financial officer, David Ebersman. In the...
Should Facebook unfriend its CFO?
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